“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need”

So with my new job, I work from home 3 days a week since technically the office is 1.5 hours away from where I currently live - I drive there the other two days. Before I started I didn't have a home office, or even a desk. It became quite apparent that I would need one after I tried to work from the living room couch one day, only to be asked my boyfriend every 5 minutes "whatcha doin? working? working hard or hardly working?"

He's a college student, and home quite often, so I had to demand ownership of his former "man room" and turn it into this. It's surprising how much you can get done away from an office setting if you just find yourself somewhere you can be productive (and you can still swap out loads of laundry between projects.) Of course, the dress code is a bit more relaxed as well.

Almost all of my office furnishings came from Target, with the exception of (obviously) the piano, which is a Baldwin upright that belonged to my mother and her siblings as children, and the desk, which is a white Parsons from Amazon.

"Maybe if they all could be combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."-Stephen Sprouse

"action is character. i think that means that if you never do anything you'll never be anybody."

So after a few months of obsessively following the photography on my favorite blogs of late (song of style & late afternoon) and being bitter that their boyfriends took their lovely pictures every day, while I was stuck with a self timer camera and my front door, I finally struck up a deal with my boyfriend. I do the dishes - his absolute least favorite chore - and he wakes up an hour earlier and takes my blog pictures before I go to work at 8. I figured it was a fair trade, an hour of sleep for 10 minute of dishes every day....in the long run, I really think I made out well, but don't tell ; )

Today's weather was sort of hilariously bipolar: 40 degrees when I woke up, 65 by lunchtime, 70 this afternoon, and down to 50 again by nightfull, hence the fur vest, cardigan, scarf, and t-shirt I layered up.

wearing: fur vest-ebay, oatmeal cardigan-dkny, tshirt-trulymadlydeeply, chinos-americaneagle, scarf-nightmarketinchina, booties-forever21

"Maybe if they all could be combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."-Stephen Sprouse

Dare to Dream

I'm loving all these fuzzy, seventies, and shearling this week - I wouldn't tell you if mine weren't already on the way, but those perfect Burberry look-a-likes are from GoJane, and they'll only set you back $44.50. They definitely softened the disappointment I felt when I realized Andy from Style Scrapbook's perfect River Island ones were not available to US customers.

Sadly, it's not cold enough here to wear any of these clothes until after I return from my trip to China on Halloween. I've really started to detest the words "indian summer," especially after our temps reached 90 degrees today. I guess I'll just keep fantasizing about November...surely it'll have to be cold by then?

"Maybe if they all could be combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."-Stephen Sprouse